Improvement in dies for cutting paper collars



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

GEO. K. SNOW, OF WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, MARGHBROTHERS, AND PIERCE 85 OO.

IMPROVEMENT IN DIES FOR CUTTING PAPER COLLARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 51,235, dated November28, 1865; antedated November 15, 1835.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE K. SNOW, of Watertown, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have made an invention ot' certainimproved or adjustable dies or cutters for forming or stamping outshirt-collars from one or more sheets of paper or ,other suitablematerial or composition ot' materials and I do hereby declare the sameto be fullyv described in the following specification and represented inthe accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top View; Fig. 2, abottom View; Fig. 3, a side elevation; Fig. 4, a horizontal section.Fig. 5 is a transverse section, and Fig. 6 a longitudinal section, otthe said invention.

In the drawings, A and B are two side cutters, and C O are twoadjustable end cutters, the latter being arranged between the. sidecutters in manner as represented in such drawings. Each of the saidcutters has a sharp lower edge.

The two end cutters, C G, are secured to the two side cutters, A B, bytwo clamp-screws, a a, which go through slots b b, formedlongitudinallyin each of the side cutters, the same being so as toenable the end cutters to be moved either nearer to or farther apartfrom one another, and tiXed in position in order to adapt the side andend cutters to the formation of shirt-collars of difterent lengths orsizes, as occasion may require, such collars being formed from a sheetor sheets by the pressure of the cutters thereon and through the same.

'There is attached to the middle of the cutter A a button-hole cutter,E, which is a tube having a sharp cutting-edge at its lower end.

specified.

There is also attached to each of the adjustable end cutters anothersuch button-hole cutter, F, the arrangement of which, as well as that ofthe cutter E, being as represented in the drawings.

The cutter E, while a collar is in the act of being stamped from a sheetof paper or other material or composition of materials, will form insuch collar the middle button-hole, the two cutters F F at the same timeforming the two end button-holes in such collar. As the said cutters F Fare attached to the end cutters, they become adjustable with them andalways bear the same positions relatively to them.

The cutters, combined as described, are to be used in a collar-stampingpress ot' the ordinary construction. y

Sometimes in stamping collars from paper but one of the side cutterswill be necessary with the two end cutters.

What I claim as my invention is as follows:

l. The combination ot' the adjustable end cutters, C O, with either oneor two side cutters, as described.

2. The combination of the adjustable but-v ton-hole cutters and endcutters with either one or two side cutters.

3. The combination of the adjustable end and button-hole cutters withone or two side cutters and a middle button-hole cutter, stationaryrelatively to the side cutter, to which it may be connected, the wholebeing substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore GEO. K. SNOW.Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY,

F. P. HALE.

